124: Blogofractal
Blogofractal |
Title text: Edward Tufte's 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information' is a fantastic book, and should be required reading for anyone in either the sciences or graphic design. |
Explanation
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The Blogosphere is a blanket term for all the blogs on the internet, that link together and share information to the extent that the term "blogosphere" arose to describe the collective of blogs. This comic proposes a new structure for defining all blogs by: a fractal of blogs.
Edward Tufte is a statistician who worked on data visualization and wrote books on the subject, including "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information", as mentioned in the title text.
Transcript
- From the makers of the Blogosphere, Blogocube, and Blogodrome comes
- the Blogofractal
- [A large rectangle subdivided into rectangles in a fractal pattern, most with a phrase or word inside.]
- [Mostly left to right from top-left corner.]
- TripMaster Monkey says
- 118th Post!!
- Wikiconstitution!
- OMG
- DeCSS
- Casemod your Boyfriend!!
- FLICKR
- They're saying on Kos that
- http:
- slashdot.org
- articl
- tagCloud
- Cory Doctorow is a little upset about copyright law.
- Hey guys what if Google is evil?!?
- I'll sleep with you for a FreeIpods deal.
- FirstPsot!!
- Snakes on an I don't Even Care Anymore
- KiwiWiki
- CSS
- Comments (0)
- Blogotesseract
- ¡play games!
- [RSS icon.]
- is AYB retro yet?
- Google Google Google Apple Google Goog
- Cheney totally shot a dude!!!
- Watch this toddler get owned by a squirrel!!!
- Developers
- Developers
- Developers
- Developers
- I installed a Mac Mini inside ANOTHER Mac Mini!
- Check out this vid of Jon Stewart
- 9-11 <-> Trent Lott!
- Web 7.1
- Kryptonite™ locks vulnerable to "keys!"
- Interesting post! Check out my blog, it has useful info on CARBON MONOXIDE LITIGATION
- FIREFLY!!
- HELP ME
- Engadget
- Boing Boing
- Gizmodo
- MAKE Blog: DIY baby
- My friend has a band!!
- Jon released an exploit in the protocol for meeting girls.
- Internets!
- Howard Dean?
- So I hear there's a hurricane.
- We should elect this dude!
- Google Maps is da best!!
- Moderation: +1 Sassy
- RSS!
- A-list
- <3
- Trackable URL?
- I shot a man in Reno check it out on YouTube!
- HEY LOOK ROBOTS!
- Net Neutrality!
- Friends Only.
- Dupe!
- AJAX?
- COMPLY
- Cowboy Neal
- Blogodrome
- Hey look I got Linux running on my tonsils!
- Look alive, blogonauts!
- Cafepress cockrings
- BOOBIES!!
- MIA
- A Beowulf Cluster... of BLOGS!!
- SPOILER ALERT
- Dupe!
- You have been eaten by a Grue.
- Ruby on a monorail
- Lesbians!
- DNF Released!
- Steampunk
- BLAG
- PONIES!
- Xeni found some porn!
- IRONY
- LIARS!
- Linux on Rails!
- Blogocube
- del.icio.us!
- 404
- o.O
- Don't slam the source when you close it.
Discussion
Strange - this explanation seems significantly less complete than 24: Godel, Escher, Kurt Halsey and not significantly less complex - anyone care to weight in on that thought? -- Brettpeirce (talk) 13:31, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
- Davidy22 picks the daily incomplete explanation randomly from the list of incomplete explanations. So, each page has a fair chance of getting picked, but they don't necessarily have a rating of "needs most help" to "doesn't need much help" that is used to pick. Feel free to work on other explanations. The banner is just to help new users who want to jump in and get their hands dirty but don't know where to start. lcarsos_a (talk) 19:29, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
Ponies is *not* a reference to My Little Pony (or at least, it cannot be one to the "Friendship is Magic" incarnation.) This comic is from 2006. FIM didn't debut until 2010. Either Randall has a time machine (a possibility one cannot, of course, completely exclude), or the reference is to something earlier. 199.27.133.122 23:44, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
- Makes me wonder what state MLP was in at that time. G3? G3.5 (also known as the Hell Babies edition)? --103.22.201.132 06:55, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
Why does he misspell "blagosphere"? What's this "blog" stuff? 108.162.218.118 05:08, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
Since "web 2.0" is the current thing, "web 7.1" could also be a reference to the different surround sound configurations 2.0 and 5.1 and 7.1. 141.101.80.75 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Could CSS be Counter Strike? Source, specifically. It’s the only thing I’ve ever heard of as CSS. Netherin5 (talk) 16:03, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
And not one Blagojevich reference, even though that would've been contemporaneous to the comic. Blah. — Kazvorpal (talk) 01:41, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
Does anyone know when Dandified Yum (DNF), the open source package manager for Fedora started development? If it was before this comic was released, then it is possible it could be referring to that. 162.158.62.157 12:23, 3 May 2021 (UTC)